Download or read book Plant Collectors in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands written by Laurence J. Dorr and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 1997 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madagascar and the Comoro Islands have an unusual, highly endemic and rich flora. This single volume is a guide to the collections and literature relating to these islands' unique and vanishing plant life. It provides biographical and bibliographical information on over 1,000 individuals who have collected herbarium specimens in these islands. Entries contain references to portraits, itineraries, collecting companions and examples of handwriting, as well as information on the location of exsiccatae, herbarium specimens and manuscript materials.